Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life (Utne Reader Books)

Here, in a single volume, you'll find compelling views of the future painted by more than sixty of the world's most original thinkers along with their thoughts on where they draw inspiration, what boosts their creativity, and who are their role models. Selected by the editors of Utne Reader, these visionaries come from monasteries and urban ghettos, work at architecture firms and restaurants, live in Berkeley and Bangladesh, are under 35 and over 80, and share one crucial asset: Hope for the future. Hope for finding broader meaning and greater joy in our lives. Hope for the restoration of the planet. Hope for a social and economic order that uses the welfare of the weakest, not the strongest, as its gauge of success.